Apple may soon exceed its self-imposed goal of bringing Apple Pay to a total of 40 countries by the end of 2019 because European mobile bank Monese announced today it’s going to bring Apple Pay to its cardholders in a bunch of countries located in Eastern Europe.

According to Monese’s tweet, Apple Pay will soon be available to customers in:

Bulgaria

Croatia

Cyprus

Estonia

Greece

Lithuania

Liechtenstein

Latvia

Malta

Portugal

Romania

Slovakia

Slovenia

Apple Pay is currently available in 37 markets, according to the iOS Feature Availability webpage that breaks down, among other things, the service’s availability by region.

We will soon bring #ApplePay – an easy, secure and private way to pay – to customers in:

Last but not least, later this year Apple Pay will be picking up some really cool features, like loyalty cards in the Wallet app and the ability to read specially-encoded NFC tags to pay for things like electric scooters without having to use or download any third-party app whatsoever.

To me, the biggest news is the arrival of Apple Pay to my home country of Croatia.